I was thinking about the Christian emphasis on forgiveness, but the Orthodox Jewish idea of having a high proportion of one’s life affected by religious rules would also count.
Judging something as ‘good’ depends on your ethical framework. What framework do you have in mind when you ask if any religions offer good advice? After all, every religion offers good advice according to its own ethics.
Going by broadly humanistic, atheistic ethics, what is good about having a high proportion of one’s life be affected by religious rules? (Whether the Orthodox Jewish rules, or in general.)
I don’t think this is just about the afterlife. Do any religions offer good but implausible advice about how to live?
What do you mean by ‘good but implausible’?
I was thinking about the Christian emphasis on forgiveness, but the Orthodox Jewish idea of having a high proportion of one’s life affected by religious rules would also count.
Judging something as ‘good’ depends on your ethical framework. What framework do you have in mind when you ask if any religions offer good advice? After all, every religion offers good advice according to its own ethics.
Going by broadly humanistic, atheistic ethics, what is good about having a high proportion of one’s life be affected by religious rules? (Whether the Orthodox Jewish rules, or in general.)
It may be worth something for people to have some low-hanging fruit for feeling as though they’re doing the right thing.
That sounds like a small factor compared to what the rules actually tell people to do.